The building is located on the outskirts of Katowice, near a forest, on a land deteriorated by 4th category mining damage, where tectonic faults are a possibility. Hence the connotation of uplifted layers of soil, interwoven with one another, which was the inspiration for the form of the house. Its structural design comprises rectangular solids contrasting with the ribbon – like structure, which winds around them after it emerges from the ground. It is the leitmotif of the building, combining a variety of functions: starting with the swimming pool to the living room with a fireplace and then to the bedroom upstairs.
A noteworthy feature of the ramp is elimination of stoops. Such a solution was achieved by bending the surface of the course, which made it possible to keep its outer edges straight, without bends typical for such structures.
A noteworthy feature of the ramp is elimination of stoops. Such a solution was achieved by bending the surface of the course, which made it possible to keep its outer edges straight, without bends typical for such structures.
A noteworthy feature of the ramp is elimination of stoops. Such a solution was achieved by bending the surface of the course, which made it possible to keep its outer edges straight, without bends typical for such structures.
| name: | broken house, katowice |
| author: | robert konieczny |
| marlena wolnik | |
| structural engineering: | jarosław kamiński |
| client: | private |
| site area: | 3500 m2 |
| usable floor area: | 330 m2 |
| volume: | 1036 m3 |
| design: | 2000 |
| construction: | 2001-2002 |
| photographs: | wojciech kryński |
| awards: | icons of architecture – poland 2006 |
| best building in katowice 2003 | |
| nominations for mies van der rohe award 2002 | |
| publications: | x-house 2011 |
fasády 03 2010
architectural & design-interiors for living 2009
architekt 01 2008
arhitectura 12 2007/01 2008
budownictwo technologie architektura 03 2007
dom & wnętrze 01 2007
architectural design 06 2006
brick award 04 2006
arq./a 11/12 2005
phaidon atlas of contemporary world architecture 2005
blad van nederlandse architecten 06 2005
“emerging polish architecture” 05 2005
3_2_1_new architecture in japan and poland 10 2004
phaidon atlas of contemporary world arch 08 2004
archivolta 07/09 2004
architektura & biznes 02 2003
| exhibitions: | architects at the piano, katowice 2016 |
| silesian technology of technology 10 2012 |
logic of space, nowy sącz 11/12 2011
v4 family houses, beirut 05 2011
wild wild east hamburg 09/11 2009
3_2_1_new architecture in japan and poland 2004